executive director of the american association of state and highway transportation officials talks about the impact of a third short-term highway funding extension and infrastructure needs across the state. watch "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning. on c-span. or on c-span now our new mobile app. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. >> sunday, on in-depth. a live conversation with author and "new york times" columnist roth on republican politics and conservatism in america. as recently released book the deep places talk about his five-year struggle with lime disease. his other titles include the decadent society, privilege, and bad religion. join in the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, text, and tweets for

. >> twenty is now is jim and executive director of the called the american association of state highway and transportation reofficials, who you represent. >> we represent the state department of transportation across the country so 52 state devotees. >> and i mean people does not involve pretty; involves thousands of career employees but our board of directors is made up of the directors of the 50 state department of transportation including district of columbia and court of organ. it. >> so the roadbuilding issues and things like that, correct pretty. >> more tha' just road believe in highways, work multi- organization involved in all modes of transportation, because every state department transportation in the country right now is involved in transportation, not just roads and highways and that's how we began 107 years ago as an organization just focused on highways bridges roads and now we are truly an organization to reflect our members and the state department transportation. >> in those multimodal weights, which is currently being spent on the infrastructure in our transportation

then, the executive director of the american association of state and highway transportation admissions talks about the impact of a highway funding expansion and infrastructure needs across the state. watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning and c-span, or on c-span now, our new mobile app. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. >> thursday dr. anthony fauci and the cvc director testify to the senate health committee on the biden administration's covid-19 response. watch live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3, online at c-span.org , or watchful coverage on c-span now, our new video app. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more, including midco. >> ♪ midco support c-span is a public service, along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> a house subcommittee held a remote hearing on covid-19 vaccination requirements. the he

of american veterans. national president, korean war veterans association. national commander, american g.i. forum. commissions officers association of the united statesc healths service. retired air force chief master sergeant carriewright. air force sergeants association. mr. robert swan. national commander. polish legion of american veterans. national president, korean war veterans association. national commander, american g.i. forum. national commander, catholic war veterans of the united states. national president, blinded veterans association. the associate members of the committee are also located in seats throughout the amphitheater. i would like to ask the presidents and national commanders that comprise our associate membership to stand and be recognized. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in recognizing our veterans national leadership with your applause. \[applause] announcer: it is now my pleasure to introduce the executive director, office of army national cemeteries and army national cemeteries miss kare durham aguilara. >> good morning. on behalf of the dedicated men and women who serve here, welcome to arlington national cemetery. i

host: joining us now is jim tymon, the executive director of the american association of state highwayation officials. who do you represent? guest: we represent the state departments of transportation across the country. host: how many people does that involve? guest: it involves thousands of state career employees. our board of directors is made of directors of the 50 state departments of transportation, including the district of columbia and puerto rico. host: so you're concerned with roadbuilding. guest: it is more than just roadbuilding and highways. we are involved in all modes of transportation. every state department of transportation are the country is involved in transportation, not just roads and highways. that is how we began, but now we are a multimodal organization to reflect our members. host: in those multimodal ways, how much is currently spent on our infrastructure, on our transportation infrastructure? guest: the important point is not enough. states and localities have stepped up and increased funding for transportation infrastructure, but the federal government has

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then the executive director of the american association of state and highway transportation officialsiscusses the impact of a short-term highway funding extension. watch washington journal tuesday mornings on c-span or c-span now, our new mobile app. texas -- or send us your facebook comments. coming up tuesday on c-span, the house is back at 10 a.m. eastern for general speeches. members are considering several bills, from the small business committee, including one that would increase the amount of capital and surplus available for small business. and another that would create a cybersecurity unit within the small business administration to assist with federal cybersecurity activities. on c-span two, the senate is back at 10:00 a.m. to consider executive nominations, including jonathan davidson to be deputy under secretary of the treasury. and on c-span3, the senate judiciary committee holds a hearing on ways to combat online good place abroad. -- fraud. the supreme court heard oral argument in a case brought by health providers challenging the enforcement provision of a texas aborti

american classrooms and includes the national association of school boards, the superintendent organization, we are part of it as is the national council of social studies, the organization of american historians and the american association for state and local history. the 4 of us are there to help them with the historical part of this. the content, but what we are trying to do is to help teachers think about how you can teach what you already described in a way that is professional and honest. as you were saying we always taught about jim crow. this legislation, when you read it carefully, says the teachers in some of the states, teachers must teach that slavery, jim crow, lynching, where deviations from the broader arc of american freedom. the deviations, especially from the visions and values embodied in the declaration of independence, the constitution, etc.. it is possible for good teacher, i hope many teachers do this, to have students read the declaration, the constitution and talk about was slavery a deviation from these principles because some students say slavery is built into this. other students would say no. some historians say yes, some historians say no. these are things we argue about. the problem -- >> still drawi

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of state. he's now the chairman of kissinger associates, which helps american companies do business around the rld, including in china. his new book is "the age of ai." henry, there are a lot of people who feel that the united states needs to be more -- tougher on china. this is a policy that trump began. this is a policy that biden has continued, talking about extreme competition with china. is that the right way to think about u.s./china relations? >> when i first went to china, it was a poor and weak and very assertive country. now it is a fairly rich, quite strong and still fairly assertive country. but our challenge then and our challenge now is to find the relationship in which we can compete without driving the situation into a holocaust. and that is a big challenge for both leaders. >> explain what you mean when you say a holocaust. because you think the stakes are very high, that if we get this wrong and it spirals into real military competition, what is the scenario you see there? >> china and the united states are the two most technologically advanced countries at the moment. they bo

disasters with already aging infrastructure that our american association of civil engineers gives the entire country a c minus. and a lot of states like california, a deep, that's why this is so important because we really need to keep people safe, get people back working and get our supply chain moving again. to get to this point though, they were hours of wrangling between democrats that ended up in a patch between progressives and centrist. what does that say about the internal politics of the democrats? well, i think it says when you have razor thin majority for 5050 in the senate, 50 republicans, 48 democrats to independents who vote with democrats and then vice president commer harris at the tiebreaker. and in the house, you have a very narrow majority. now, to 21 to 213, it means that you can only lose a handful of votes in the house and none in the senate, if you're going to do something on partisan terms. and since the republicans have decided that they want to make joe biden a one term president, and they will not give him the vote, he need to advance his agenda. democrats have to have unanimity in a party that is never

i was talking with the association of american states geologists, and i asked them, what do you say if people ask do we have all these minerals here? the geologist from utah said we have 28 of the 35 critical minerals in utah right now, and thanks to the u.s. geological survey, and some of the funds they've made available, the geologists are now doing more mapping than they have done in decades. they are excited, enthusiastic and they are finding rare earth. there is a cobalt belt in missouri, things we were not aware of. it is really impressive what we can do when we put our money and mind to it. >> miss swing, you mentioned in your testimony that permitting for mining can take seven to nine years. did i read that correctly? >> if you are lucky. >> here's the thing. if you go to canada or other countries, australia, it does not take seven to ten years. what does it take another countries? >> two to three years. in countries with very similar environmental standards. >> so when you talk about a seven to ten years on permitting, is that not including the lawsuits or does that include th

i was last week talking to the association of american state geologists and i asked them, what do you think, people saying do we have all these minerals here and the geologists from utah said, well,gologist, we have 28 of the 35 critical minerals in utah right now and thanks to u.s. geological survey and some of the funds that they've made available to the states, the geologists are now going out and doing more mapping than they have done in decades. and they are excited and enthusiastic and they're finding rare earth. there's a cobalt belt in missouri. interesting. i was not aware of and it's really impressive what we can do when we put our money and mind to it. >> ms. sweeney, you mentioned in your testimony that permitting can take seven to ten years. am i reading that correctly? >> if you're lucky, it is a major, major mine. you go to multiple other countries, australia. it doesn't take seven to ten years to do the permitting on that. what does it take in other places? >> two to three years in countries with very similar environmental standards and environmental processes. >> so,

of the advocacy for the american lung association. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> how is california doing overall when it comes to the state of lung cancer? >> there are areas where california does average compared to the rest of the nation, that is around our five- year survival rate. there are areas where we do better. we have better smoking rates than the rest of the country and we have a lower number of new cases compared to the rest of the country. where we have an opportunity for improvement is around our screenings, because, currently in california, only 1% of high risk individuals get screened. >>> what about disparities among groups? what needs to improve and how? >> there are disparities among racial lines. in california in particular, black americans are the least likely to receive surgical treatment and surgery is the best method for dealing with lung cancer. that is also tied in with getting screened early on, making sure that people, especially at high risk, getting screened. if people are high risk, there are three factors that contribute, one, if you are between 50 and 80, two, if you have a 20 pack year history, that is

of our massive vaccination efforts. according to the american immunization registry association, one state went from an average of 17,000 doses recorded in its i.i.s. each day to over 500,000 this past spring. this dramatic increase required the state health department to nearly quadruple the number of digital servers used to host the data. these are not one-time costs. going forward these new servers and data collected during the pandemic will need to be maintained and secured. state and local leaders have also told us that inconsist ten and antiquated technology, incomplete provider participation, and faltering interoperability are areas where we must improve to ensure that we have useful and quality data. it's important that the systems used by physicians are able to communicate with the state and local public health departments and that these systems can also communicate with other states and the c.d.c. so h.r. 550, the bill before us today, addresses these challenges by providing grants for technological upgrades, provide outreach and enrollment, policy development, and skilled work force to build and maintain thes

i was talking with the association of american states geologists, and i asked them, what do you say if people ask, we have these minerals here. the geologist from utah said, we have 28 of the critical minerals in utah now, and thanks to the u.s. geological survey and some of the funds they've made available, the geologists are doing more mapping than they have done in decades. they are excited and enthusiastic and finding rare earths. there is a cobalt belt in missouri. it is impressive what we can do when we put our mind to it. sen. lankford: you mentioned in your testimony permitting can take 7-9 years. did i read that right? ms. sweeney: if you are lucky. sen. lankford: if you go to canada or other countries, it doesn't take seven to 10 years,. what does it take in other countries? ms. sweeney: two to three years in other countries with environmental standards. is that for the permitting not including the lawsuits, or does that include the lawsuits? ms. sweeney: it generally does not include the lawsuits. sen. lankford: yes, i know where they are, yes i know the permitting process,

american tourism industry. the travel association estimates ndbeen lost from the lack of international travel during the pandemic. >>> the state department public health as covid cases are on the rise in california. colder weather keeping pupils indoors and waning immunity to the vaccine may be contributing factors. andrea is live in san rafael, with more on the new warning from experts. >> thousands of people have come through vaccination sites like this one. marin has an incredibly high vaccination rate get this county is still seeing that little spike in cases, and it is especially concerning considering this is sae ge spik cases last year. covid cases hovering around 3000 per day in the state last october but skyrocketed to more than 58,000 by december. they say there is reason to be optimistic that the numbers won't explode this year. >> it is that we have a lot of st area wi% of the tal this weekend, the super site at miller creek middle school. in all, nearly 2400 kids between the ages 5 to 11 got the shot. >> i think it is normal, we see cases go back up, they'll be breakthrough infections because we all know the vacci

states. his book titles include the father of us all, the case are trump and his latest the dying citizens in which he says the idea of american citizenship and the ideals associateit are disappearing. join in a conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts and tweets for victor davis hanson sunday, december 5 at noon eastern on "in depth" on booktv. before the program visit c-span c-spanshop.org to get your copies of his books. >> american history tv saturdays on c-span2 exploring the people and events that tells the american story. at 11 a.m. eastern on lectures in history explores how the pilgrims became part of the united states founding story in 19th century history textbooks. at 1 p.m. president nixon senior domestic policy advisor gives a behind the scenes of view of the 37th president domestic agenda which included guaranteed family income, additional health insurance programs and support for children's nutrition. on the presidency watch the weddings of 21st daughters at the white house. at 2 p.m. president lyndon johnson's daughter mary's u.s. marine captain charles roth. december 9, 1967. at 3:10 p.m. president nixon's daughter mary's on

states. his book titles include the father of us all, the case or trump, and at the dying citizens, the idea of american citizenship and ideals associated with it are disappearing. join us with your facebook comments, text messages, and tweets on in-depth on book tv. visit >> next, we take you to london for prime minister's question time with boris johnson. he answered questions on a variety of topics including infrastructure investment, health-care costs, and covid-19 vaccines. [inaudible conversations] >> before we come to prime minister's questions, i would like to point out that the british sign language interpretation proceedings is available to watch on parliament live tv. i don't think we need any more. if you listen to this next bit, it might help. [laughter] before we -- i wish to make a further point. there are many reflections on sir david's decency and kindness. it's a very moving requiem mass. those qualities of kindness, decency are reflected in our proceedings today and in the future. i now call the prime minister. [inaudible] >> number one, mr. speaker. prime minister. >> mr. speaker -- [inaudible conversations] >> thank

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state leaders. we are partnering with groups that have a long-standing relationship with parents, including the national parent -teacher association, the american academy of pediatrics, and will be providing all these organizations with tools and back sheets, and fliers with information about the vaccine, and we are setting up forms and town halls to answer parent questions, including a town hall this sunday. we are also working with medical groups to encourage doctors to talk to their patients about the vaccine, and to appear on local media outlets -- including appearances by spanish-speaking doctors on spanish india, so all parents can get their questions answered. we are going to leverage the full network of federal government programs to get the word out to parents, working with headstart programs, medicaid providers, and others. finally, we are setting up a nationwide network of vaccination clinics in schools so that families have easy access to vaccinations in their neighborhoods, administered by organizations they trust. we have partnered with the children's hospital association to host clinics at children's hospitals across the country. in all thi

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war where the united states has been engaged in combat than a longer time period than at any point in american history, the possibility of there being substantial difficulties associated that is -- was very high and we knew that going in. we had to be clear-eyed about that going in. now, the intelligence community and the entire national security apparatus of the administration did not anticipate kabul would fall before august 31st. but we had contingencies in place to deal with that. we actually flowed forces into kabul and evacuated 124,000 e of course, when you look in hindsight, there's many things you wish you could have done better. but the fundamental decision, the decision to leave, the decision to continue to draw down over the course of the summer and the decision to ultimately execute on this contingency plan and run this evacuation up through august 31, the president has stood behind those decisions. we stand behind those decisions, and we believe the united states' national interests are better secured by being out of afghanistan today than if we were still in afghanistan today. >> afghanistan is in free-fall, and it could become a failed state if it does

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american citizens, green card holders. but we are also working to evacuate afghans at risk and people associated with the united states government. there's a number of applicants for the special immigrant visa program who have a visa. they were issued a visa or we have given them an electronic visa. we are working to arrange flights for them. >> i would just note that speaking for myself, if there's need for additional resources, financial resources to provide additional personnel to speed this process, i would for one be anxious to provide that support. i think we have a moral responsibility and american commitment to help those who helped us and leave no one behind, not just our own citizens butters who fought alongside us. on a very different area, many of us have concern about what china's ambitions might be with regard to taiwan, one, because of the people there who have enjoyed a freedom from the heavy-handed communist party, but also for our own interests, particularly given the fact that the great majority of the world's semiconductors are manufacturers in taiwan. this would be an attractive get for china. what is the state department doing